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Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release
asavage writes "According to this article on news.com
last week, Eminem's "The Eminem Show," which was yet to be released, cracked the chart at No. 2. This is the first time an unreleased CD has been number 2 on this list of CD's played in computers." I've pre-ordered my copy
and am looking forward to hearing it. But its pretty amazing that Gracenote
registers a pirated CD #2 without the benefit of it being for sale yet.
Thank god they shut down napster and stopped piracy.
The real scary part of this blurb is that Eminem is ranked #2 at something. There are enough people out there that take him seriously. Now THAT is scary...
Being the broke, selfish, 14-year-old nerd that I am, I downloaded the new KoRn cd, "Untouchables", slated to be released in June, 2 MONTHS ago and gave copies to all of my friends.
Sure, when I muster the cash, I'll buy the real copy. But I'll be pissed as hell at KoRn if I bought the real copy without trying it out, say in the instance that I'd only been allowed to hear the one single on the radio. Then I'd never buy any more KoRn cds.
Before now, only the h4rdc0r3 IRC people could find the new albums ahead of time. But now, everyone can. Heck, the person I least expected to (typical dumb blonde pretty girl) gave me my copy of The Eminem Show. Wow. What a change.
I know that none of you condone piracy. Perhaps you'll even mod me down for this comment. But remember, at least I have the balls to admit that what I'm doing is wrong. -shrug-
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after all, the dude's name way Hymen, someone was getting "fscked" (Eminem, I suppose) only thing missing was comment from Virgin records.
Talk about flawed logic;
The don't release for fear of piracy (but it gets on the shelves and pulled) it gets pirated because it does get out, and the don't release it again for fear of piracy...after it has been pirated?
Eh? Isn't that like burning down the locked barn down out of spite for the horse escaping?
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Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
Whoever put my shit on the Internet, I want to meet that motherfucker and beat the shit out of him... - Eminem
Oh, whinge on Eminemenem, you poofter wanna-be-bad whitebread whiteboy. What a tiresome little twerp. Shame his momma didn't bitchslap him when he was a brat: it'd have done him some good.
Eninem is low-quality noise for low-quality listeners.
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You're damn right this is a fucking flame. I'm tired of it.
A) If you believe this album was "leaked" or somehow released accidentally, I have a bridge in Brooklyn i'd like to sell you. Record companies do this intentionally to boost record sales on artists they suspect will tank. For that matter, if you even believe the "Billboard" charts are anything other than a marketing tool for record labels, again, I've got a great bridge i'd like to sell you. Entries in the Billboard charts are bought and sold like superbowl commercials. Record Label A pays $X,XXX,XXX to rent the #2 position for a week, to promote their artist, while Record Label B pays $X,XXX,XXX for #4, #11, #24 and so on, and so on.. Its carved up like a pie with the best slice given to the highest bidder. Wake up.
B) If you have so much time in your hands that you can sit around and listen to sonic diarrhea like Eminem, you even more of a goddamn moron than I thought, Rob. Theres so much good music out there, both today and yesterday, and all you can think to do is listen to a big steaming crock of crap. Niiiice.
C) This is neither news for nerds, nor stuff that matters. I just opened a site for the Linux community, to give them a place to share desktop themes without all the foo-foo bullshit of Freshmeat/Themes.org. I tried submitting the opening announcement here no less than 3 times, and had it rejected every time. Meanwhile, you want to tell your Oprah book club about controversy that isn't really a controversy. You running a infomercial site now, Rob?
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
Um, Eminem is a really good rapper.
Almost the top turd on the dungpile...
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